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No (fungible) US dollars?
You get karma for comments, including comments signalling altruism. If you want to get karma via saying that you have donated then it becomes a task of maximising the efficiency of your PR exposure. The same applies to other signals, costly or otherwise.
Donating to charity is a less efficient way to gain lesswrong karma than googling for rationality quotes even in terms of time taken to make a donation, neglecting the cost of a donation itself.
I earned more than 100 karma from a single rationality quote, and a max of 56 from any single donation comment.
Hmmm, I suppose all I would need is a botnet and a bitcoin address to change this. That's somewhat beside the point, though.
The economic language here ("exchange rate", "paying", etc.) is not meant in a serious sense: obviously the donors were not making a donation for the sake of gathering karma. But yet, they did signal, and they did (in a non-serious sense) purchase that signal.
Of course it is. As I wrote,
No implication that you didn't get it intended. Just emphasizing the scope of the disconnect if even time-it-takes-to-donate is sufficient. :)